Bleak House — Page 3

Vocabulary

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However; but; nevertheless, used as a conjunction.

ဤ

i — This; used as a formal demonstrative pronoun.

ကိစ္စ

ka-si-sa — Matter; affair; issue; a thing to deal with.

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with, a conjunction or preposition.

ပတ်သက်

pat thek — To relate to; to concern; to be connected with.

၍

yway — Therefore; so; and so, a formal connective particle.

ဘာ

bha — What; used in questions asking about something.

များ

myar — Many; plural marker; more; lots of something.

ဖြစ်ပျက်

pfyit pyit — To happen; to occur; events taking place.

နေ

nay — To live; to stay; to be situated somewhere.

သည်

thi — Formal subject marker particle; also means 'is/are'.

ယခု

ya-khu — Now; at this moment; currently, indicating present time.

တိုင်

tine — Until; up to; to reach a point or extent.

လည်း

leh — Also; too; as well; an additive particle.

ဆဲ

hsay — Still; yet; continuing in a state or action.

ဖြစ်

pfyit — To be; to become; to happen or occur.

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; toward; indicates direct object.

ချွတ်ခြောက်

chhwut chjauk — To strip bare; to completely empty or remove everything.

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; that; which; a formal connector.

လူ

lu — Person; human being; people in general.

ထု

htu — Mass; bulk; to strike; the public or community.

သိ

thi — To know; to be aware of; to understand something.

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have; to be present somewhere.

သင့်

thin — You (polite); also means 'should' or 'ought to'.

မှာ

hma — At; in; on; a locative and instructional particle.

အကျိုး

a-kyoe — Benefit; result; advantage; consequence of an action.

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; owing to a reason.

စာ

sa — Letter; writing; book; document; written text.

မျက်

myit — Eye; facial; relating to the face or sight.

နှာ

hna — Nose; face; front part of the face.

တွင်

twin — In; inside; within; a locative preposition.

ချန်

chhan — To leave behind; to omit; to set aside something.

တရား

ta-yar — Law; justice; Dhamma; righteous doctrine or teaching.

ရုံး

yone — Office; court; government building or institution.

ဖော်ပြ

pfaw-pya — To show; to indicate; to display or express something.

ထား

htar — To place; to put; to keep or set something aside.

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; matter; object; an item or subject.

အားလုံး

ar-lone — All; everything; everyone; every single one.

အနှစ်သား

a-hnit-thar — Essence; substance; core content of something.

အားဖြင့်

ar-pfyin — By means of; through; in terms of; by way of.

မှန်ကန်

hmun-kan — Correct; accurate; right; being factually proper.

ပြီး

pyi — After; already done; finished; completion marker.

အမှန်

a-hmun — Truth; truly; in reality; the actual fact.

ကိုက်ညီ

kite nyi — To match; to fit; to correspond or agree with.

ကြောင်း

kyaung — That; reason; cause; a nominalizing or linking particle.

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place; location; position; a spot or area.

လို

lo — To need; to want; to require; like or as.

ပါ

par — Polite sentence particle; also 'to include' or 'also'.

၏

i — Formal possessive particle; of; belonging to someone.

အမှု

a-hmu — Case; affair; legal case; a matter to be handled.

အစ

a-si — Beginning; start; origin; the initial part of something.

မှ

hma — From; out of; since; a source or starting particle.

အဆုံး

a-hsone — End; conclusion; final point; the last part of something.

ကြောက်မက်

kyauk-met — Fearful; dreadful; causing terror or great fear.

ဖွယ်

pfway — Worth doing; deserving; likely to be; suffix of worthiness.

ကောင်း

kaung — Good; fine; well; of high quality or virtue.

မှား

hmar — Wrong; incorrect; mistaken; to make an error.

ယွင်း

ywin — Defective; flawed; imperfect; having a fault or error.

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix; act of; action; an abstract noun marker.

တစ်ခုလုံး

tit khu lone — The whole thing; entirely; all of one unit.

အတတ်ပညာ

a-tat-pyin-nya — Skill; expertise; professional knowledge or ability.

အရ

a-ya — According to; based on; as per a source or rule.

ကြိုင်

kyine — To smell; to have a fragrance; to sniff something.

ရင်

yin — Chest; breast; if; when; a conditional particle.

သူ

thu — He; she; they; third person singular pronoun.

ကြားနေ

kyar-nay — Neutral; to remain neutral; not taking sides.

တစ်

tit — One; a single; the numeral one in Burmese.

ဦး

oo — Head; top; honorific title; classifier for people.

ရှင်

shin — Polite address; lord; living being; monk or royalty.

ကြား

kyar — Between; among; to hear; in the middle of.

စေ

say — To cause; to make someone do something; causative marker.

တကယ်

ta-geh — Really; truly; indeed; actually; in earnest.

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense marker; went; did previously; away.

သည့်

thih — Relative clause marker; which; that (attributive form).

ဖြစ်ရပ်

pfyit-yat — Event; incident; occurrence; something that has happened.

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing; a single item or unit.

ကွာခြား

kwar-chhar — To differ; to be distinct; difference between things.

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not; no; negates a verb or adjective.

ပေ

pay — Foot (unit); also an emphatic or evidential particle.

လက်ရှိ

let-shi — Current; present; existing at this time.

အချိန်

a-chhin — Time; period; moment; a point in time.

ခုနှစ်

khu-hnit — Year; used after a number to indicate a calendar year.

သြဂုတ်

aw-goot — August; the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar.

လ

la — Month; moon; the lunar body in the sky.

နှစ်

hnit — Year; two; both (depending on context).

ဆယ်

hsay — Ten; the numeral ten in Burmese.

နီးပါး

ni-bar — Nearly; almost; approximately; close to a number.

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from; indicates the agent.

တည်းက

ti-ga — Since; from (a time); ever since a point in time.

စတင်

sa-tin — To start; to begin; to commence an action.

ရှေ့

shay — Front; ahead; forward; the future; in front of.

မှောက်

hmout — Face down; upside down; to overturn or flip over.

ထို

htoe — That; those; a demonstrative pronoun for distant things.

ကြိမ်

kyime — Time; occasion; instance; classifier for repeated actions.

တည်း

ti — Only; just; alone; a restrictive or emphatic particle.

ရှောင်ကြဉ်

shoun-kyin — To avoid; to abstain from; to keep away from.

ရေး

yay — To write; matter; affair; concerning a topic.

အကြံ

a-khan — Idea; suggestion; advice; a plan or thought.

ပေး

pay — To give; to provide; to offer something to someone.

သုံး

thone — Three; to use; to utilize or employ something.

လေး

lay — Four; also a softening or endearing sentence particle.

အထိ

a-hti — Until; up to; as far as; to the extent of.

တက်ရောက်

tet-yout — To attend; to participate; to be present at an event.

ပြ

pya — To show; to demonstrate; to display something visually.

ကြ

kya — Plural verb particle; to do together; plural marker.

ပေါင်

poun — Pound (currency or weight); to combine; to join together.

ခုနစ်

khu-hnit — Seven; the numeral seven in Burmese.

သောင်း

thoun — Ten thousand; the numeral 10,000 in Burmese.

တန်ဖိုး

tan-pfoe — Value; worth; price; the importance of something.

စရိတ်

sa-yit — Cost; expense; expenditure; money spent on something.

စက

sa-ga — Machine; engine; device; a mechanical apparatus.

ကျ

kya — To fall; to drop; to decrease; to go down.

၎င်း

da-gin — It; that aforementioned thing; a formal reference pronoun.

သဟဇာတ

tha-ha-zat — Compatible; harmonious; in accord with; congruent.

ကျွန်ုပ်

kya-noup — I; me; a very formal first-person singular pronoun.

အသေ

a-thay — Exactly; precisely; fixed; definite; dead certain.

အချာ

a-char — Center; pivot; hub; the central point of something.

အတိုင်း

a-tine — As; according to; in accordance with; as it is.

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; above; used in comparisons.

သတ်

thut — To kill; to define; to set; a punctuation marker.

ခြင်း

chhin — Nominalizing suffix; the act of; -ing; abstract noun marker.

နီး

ni — Near; close; nearby; in proximity to something.

ကပ်

kat — To stick; to attach; to be adjacent or next to.

သေး

thay — Still; yet; small; not yet done; tiny in size.

နောက်ထပ်

nout-htat — Another; additional; furthermore; one more item.

ယင်း

yin — That; it; the aforementioned; a formal reference particle.

ယခင်

ya-khin — Previous; former; past; before the current time.

ရာစု

ya-su — Century; a period of one hundred years.

ကုန်

kone — To be finished; goods; merchandise; to run out.

မီ

mi — Before; in time; to reach in time; prior to.

ပမာဏ

pa-ma-na — Amount; quantity; measurement; the extent of something.

ဆ

hsa — Times; multiplied by; a multiplication marker.

ကျော်

kyaw — Over; more than; to exceed; to pass beyond.

ငွေကြေး

ngway-kyay — Money; currency; finance; monetary funds.

ပျောက်

pyout — To disappear; to be lost; to vanish; to go missing.

ဆုံး

hsone — To end; to finish; to die; the utmost or end point.

သွား

thwar — To go; to leave; to travel somewhere; directional particle.

ဆုံးဖြတ်

hsone-pfyat — To decide; to determine; to make a judgment.

ချက်

chhet — Point; instant; cooked; a decisive moment or item.

ချ

chha — To put down; to lower; to issue; to hand down.

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; to receive; can; to be able.

ဂျားန်ဒိုက်

gyar-dite — Genocide; the systematic killing of a group.

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; on behalf of something.

အခြား

a-chhar — Other; another; different; some other thing or person.

သက်သေ

thet-thay — Evidence; witness; proof; testimony in a legal sense.

သာဓက

Example; instance; illustration of a point.

အပ်

at — To entrust; to hand over; needle; to submit something.

ရှက်

shet — To be ashamed; embarrassed; feeling shame or shyness.

ကြောက်

kyout — To fear; to be scared; to be afraid of something.

ဆီ

hsi — Oil; toward; in the direction of; to that place.

သို့

thoe — To; toward; in the direction of; a directional particle.

ပေါ်

paw — On top of; above; surface; to appear; to emerge.

မိုး

moe — Rain; sky; to rain; the rainy season.

ရွာ

ywar — Village; to rain heavily; a rural settlement.

သွန်း

thoon — To pour; to cast (metal); to flow or spill out.

ကဲ့

keh — Like; similar to; as if; used in comparisons.

နိုင်

nine — To be able to; can; to win; to be capable.

မှတ်ချက်

hmut-chhet — Comment; remark; note; an observation or annotation.

ခွန်း

khoon — Question; query; a riddle or inquiry posed to someone.

အချက်

a-chhet — Point; detail; fact; a specific item of information.

သာ

tha — Only; just; merely; an exclusive or restrictive particle.

ကျန်

kyan — Remaining; left over; the rest of something.

မစ္စတာ

mis-star — Mister; Mr.; a title of address for a man.

သေ

thay — To die; dead; to be still; certainly; very much.

ချိန်

chhin — Time; moment; to measure; a point or period of time.

စ

sa — To begin; start; first; to initiate an action.

အလို

a-lo — Desire; wish; want; what one hopes to have.

အလျောက်

a-lyout — Automatically; accordingly; in accordance with.

မီး

mi — Fire; flame; light; electricity; a burning source.

လောင်

loun — To burn; to be on fire; to blaze intensely.

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; said that; according to someone.

ခေါ်

khaw — To call; to name; to summon; to invite someone.

ခြေ

chay — Foot; leg; base; the lower limb of a person.

ငြင်း

nyin — To refuse; to deny; to reject; to argue against.

ဆို

hso — To say; to speak; to sing; quotative verb.

ခင်မင်

khin-min — To be fond of; to be friendly; affectionate toward.

သူငယ်ချင်း

thu-ngay-chin — Friend; close companion; a personal friendship bond.